On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 3:56 AM inhahe <inh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 3:52 AM Roel Schroeven <r...@roelschroeven.net> > wrote: > >> Op 26/02/2023 om 6:53 schreef Hen Hanna: >> > > There are some similarities between Python and Lisp-family >> > > languages, but really Python is its own thing. >> > >> > >> > Scope (and extent ?) of variables is one reminder that Python is >> not Lisp >> > >> > for i in range(5): print( i ) >> > ......... >> > print( i ) >> > >> > ideally, after the FOR loop is done, the (local) var i should also >> disappear. >> > (this almost caused a bug for me) >> I wouldn't say "i *should* also disappear". There is no big book of >> programming language design with rules like that that all languages have >> to follow. Different languages have different behavior. In some >> languages, for/if/while statements introduce a new scope, in other >> languages they don't. In Python, they don't. I won't say one is better >> than the other; they're just different. >> >> -- >> >> > I'm not sure, but I think I remember this was actually a bug in the > interpreter, and presumably they didn't fix it because they didn't want to > break backward compatibility? > > Maybe I'm thinking of a variable scope leak after list comprehensions. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
